cinerary

ADJECTIVE
  1. containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead
    a cinerary urn
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How To Use cinerary In A Sentence

  • Some of the objects were miniatures especially made for the funeral, and many were deliberately broken, with only a portion interred in the cinerary urns, with the rest perhaps kept as mementoes for the living, he added. Anglo-Saxons honored their dead with mundane household objects
  • The so-called cinerary urns are large vessels which have been usually discovered containing human bones; they have often been found inverted over cremated remains. The Bronze Age in Ireland
  • The walls contain only a few reused blocks (spolia) being mainly middle to late Hellenistic cinerary urns (osteothecae). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 3
  • a cinerary urn
  • Bring me a cinerary urn," said he, and he walked forward to the dying embers. The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome
  • Swan inn, was a Roman burial ground, and several cinerary urns and some coffins have been discovered there. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
  • The pottery is all "hand-made," and the bulk of the objects excavated are cinerary urns, usually found full of burnt bones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • Inside the dolium was a bronze cinerary urn containing the burnt bones wrapped in a linen cloth; silver items including a bowl and dragon fibula (garment pin); and small objects of ivory and amber. Dig Like a Surgeon
  • Inside the dolium was a bronze cinerary urn containing the burnt bones wrapped in a linen cloth; silver items including a bowl and dragon fibula (garment pin); and small objects of ivory and amber. Dig Like a Surgeon
  • It was discovered near Marlborough by Sir R.C. Hoare, and its contents proved it to be a cinerary urn of a date probably not much anterior to the Roman occupation of Britain. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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